How is Baldrige Different or Similar to SACS?

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is not an accreditation process like Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). If we do not earn the Baldrige award, we will not lose access to financial aid for our students. However, going through this process is just as rigorous as going through SACSCOC because the same principles of quality that guide the Baldrige process are aligned with the SACSCOC process. The evidence we show to Baldrige is the same evidence we show to SACSCOC.